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For all the commotion about next-generation video game consoles that people were subjected to this year, few, if any, of 2013′s best games actually came out on either of those devices. Partly this is a matter of timing — few consoles launch with quality games, and if the vibrant history of game development on both Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Sony’s PlayStation 3 consoles are any indication, both of their successors will ultimately prove fertile ground for talented developers. But it’s also a sign of how much the game industry has changed in recent years, so much so that many critics have begun to wonder if this will be the last true “console” generation to speak of.

The elephant in the room for all these conversations is, of course, the iPhone. Since Apple introduced the iOS app store in 2008 to go along with its newly network-enabled smartphone, the combination of hardware and software have evolved into one of the most successful “video game consoles” that ever existed — though nobody, particularly anybody who actually works at Apple, would actually call it that. Other companies soon followed suit. And, well, anybody who’s ever played Candy Crush Saga or Angry Birds knows where gaming went from there. Read More »

Two weeks ago, actress and singer Patti LuPone grabbed a cell phone out of the hand of an audience member who was texting during a performance of her current play, "Shows for Days." The bold move led to an outpouring of support from fans fed up with glowing screens. Ms. LuPone gives us her five rules of theater etiquette.